Re: clk maintenance [Was: Re: [PATCH v1] clk: Use named initializers for platform_device_id arrays]

["Benoît Monin" <benoit.monin@bootlin.com>]

Hi Uwe,

On Saturday, 18 July 2026 at 19:13:11 CEST, Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) wrote:
> Hello Brian, Michael and Stephen,
> 
> [I trimmed recipients as the new topic isn't related only to my patch
> under discussion in this thread.]
> 
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 10:57:54AM -0400, Brian Masney wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 11:51:17AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) wrote:
> > > Do you still have it on your radar?
> > 
> > I sent Stephen a pull on June 29th for stuff that I felt was missed during
> > the last merge window and I included 4 of your patches in that pull:
> > 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-clk/akLzCVzbMbUsgDda@redhat.com/T/#u
> > 
> > I haven't heard from Stephen yet. There's 2-3 other pulls waiting as
> > well.
> 
> I only occasionally have clk patches, but my impression is that getting
> feedback takes quite long and without Brian's efforts also things would
> get lost. (Thanks Brian for picking up my stuff!)
> 
I also share that impression. I have a series that has been lingering for a
while now. My last attempt at getting it merged was sending it as a pull
request and it did not get much reaction, despite Brian's effort to get some
attention to it:

    [GIT PULL] clk: eyeq: Support for Mobileye EyeQ7H for v7.3
    https://lore.kernel.org/linux-clk/RcAweJqGSl27gSWWG_TpDg@bootlin.com/

> Looking at the current maintainers:
> 
> 	$ git log --format=fuller --since 2026-01-01 next-20260717 drivers/clk | grep -E 'Boyd|Turquette' | sort | uniq -c
> 	      8     Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
> 	     28 Author:     Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
> 	      3     Cc: Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>
> 	      3     Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
> 	     81 Commit:     Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
> 	      1     Pull clk fix from Stephen Boyd:
> 	      3     Pull clk updates from Stephen Boyd:
> 	     54     Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
> 	linux$ git log --format=oneline --since 2026-01-01 next-20260717 drivers/clk | wc -l
> 	453
> 
> (Maybe that is because Stephen cares for the core mostly and arch
> maintainers merge stuff about their clks themselves?)
> 
> The last commit where Michael Turquette was actively involved is from
> 2021 (a331659e32718b31f3a304d7797a77d31610468c) which is also the last
> mail from him on the clk list (see
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-clk/?q=f%3ATurquette).
> 
> I only observe from the side line, but with the relevance of the clk
> subsystem I feel maintenance is underpowered today.
> 
> Is it time for Michael to step down? Would Brian be ready to become a
> full maintainer? Is there a need for more reviewers? Any volunteers to
> step up?
> 
I would like to offer my help. Although I have not followed through, I did a
few reviews of clock patches and I can have some time allocated to do that.
I can pick up my reviewing effort if it can help the clk subsystem.

Best regards,
-- 
Benoît Monin, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com